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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While standing in the crowd at Riverfront Coliseum, I distinctly remember feeling that I was being punished for being a rock fan. My sister and I joked about this, unaware of the horror happening around us. Later, those jokes came back to us grimly as we watched the news. How many lives before the punitive and inhuman policy of festival seating at rock concerts is outlawed...
...force the U.S. to look for ways to foster material prosperity in Third World countries without alienating their cultures. Says Richard Bulliet, a Columbia University historian who specializes in the Middle East: "We have to realize that there are other ways of looking at the future than regarding us as being the future. It is possible that the world is not going to be homogenized along American-European lines...
...conceivable circumstance, from defecation to urination to sexual intercourse to eating to cleaning the teeth. Khomeini does give attention to human frailties; he says, in essence, 'If you don't do it this way, well, if you feel bad, that's okay.' But the scheme is appallingly oppressive to us Westerners, in that there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything...
...think he's crazy," says Columbia University Historian Richard Bulliet. "Most of his decisions have been taken quite logically as a consequence of his perception of the popular will." Richard Falk, professor of international relations and foreign policy at Princeton, concurs: "When he seems the most crazy to us, he appears most exemplary to the Iranian people. That suggests you would have to say all of Iran is crazy...
...there may be ill feelings toward Iran in the U.S. as reported. But if the facts penetrate the Zionist-imperialist propaganda screen, if we succeed in explaining the truth to the American citizenry through the mass media, then the Americans will most probably have a change of heart about us and reciprocate our amicable attitude. But we are under no illusion that the U.S. Government might change its hostile attitude. The U.S. Government has lost great interests in Iran. Still worse, the Administration has lost its political prestige in other countries as well...